Quotes About Ambition

I think one day I want to be on the other side of the camera-maybe directing

I didn't plan to act, but I'm glad I'm doing it - and I just want to keep getting better.

Joan Crawford is a movie queen. I had never met one before. I know now what I don't want to be.

I've always wanted to direct and as I grow and I get older and I get older I just want to let that evolve.

A lot of directors don't want the pressure of a movie the size of Pearl Harbor. But I love it. I thrive on it.

I don't know what's going to happen. I'm flavor of the month at the moment, but somebody else is going to roll around the corner in three months' time. I just want to keep working. I can't stop!

Every actor I know wants to be a pop star.

There's only one reason why a character drinks: to seek confrontation. To fight for what they want in ways normally denied them.

I was a weirdo to want to be in show business. Most kids wanted to be teachers or nurses.

I don't think I'm delusional, but I'm definitely a dreamer; I definitely want to see the best in things and I believe in what I do.

I'm very intelligent. I'm capable of doing everything put to me. I've launched a perfume and want my own hotel chain. I'm living proof blondes are not stupid.

I positively, positively, positively want to play. I've got everything else so why not a gold medal? I want to play.

Now my main goal is my solo career, so I want to keep doing that.

People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same.

My plate is full with just acting. I want to focus on that, and then maybe direct in the future.

Running for president must be like having babies. You have to forget what it was like the last time before you want to do it again.

You must demand nothing less than the best of yourself and for yourself. You must tell yourself that it is not wrong to want it all.

I tell you, if you're in the front row of the parade and you stop walking, pretty soon you're back in the tuba section. And if you want to lead the parade you've got to keep moving.

If I was a little bit younger I would worry more. I'd want to do one thing at a time but now I try to do a bunch of different things at a time if I can.

In college, I thought I wanted to be solely an artist, and then when I got here, to college, I was like, "Okay, well I want to be a songwriter," 'cause it was like close to Nashville.

If you want something, you don't wait for the world to deal it out for you. You take it.

People who have what they want are very fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they don't want it.

Every time you state what you want or believe, you're the first to hear it. It's a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don't put a ceiling on yourself

I can see my ghost trying to get that Academy Award, forever stuck in a casting office. Can you imagine? I've spent enough time in audition rooms. I don't want to be doing that in my afterlife.